'I got up and tried to hit the girl. I had her in a corner, to try to get her off me, and the other girl came up and started kicking me in my face, punching me in my nose, rippping my earring out of my earlobes.'

Miss Polis said there was no way to escape the attack, adding: ' Every time I tried to walk away they followed me.'

And, in what will cause major embarrassment to McDonald's and its 'family restaurant' image, Miss Polis said staff not only allowed the abuse to continue, one employee - identified as Vernon Hackett from images and comment he put online - filmed the incident.

The footage, which was put online, has attracted hundreds of thousands of viewers.

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Shocking: Brown was indicted on assault and hate crime charges for the attack on Chrissy Lee Polis who was brutally beaten until she had a seizure

Brutal: The girl suffers blow after blow while staff duck out of the way, right

Miss Polis said: 'Everybody in that McDonald's sat there and watched me get hurt. Nobody did nothing at all.

'And then they tried to tell [the girls] to leave because the cops were coming, so they could protect them and not me.

'I remember the guy working at McDonald's was taping me on his cell
phone, and I told him to get it out of my f***ing face. And he sat
there, and he must have taped me even further.'

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The fast-food chain has issued a statement about the safety of its
customers being paramount, and Rosedale franchise owner Mitchell
McPherson yesterday announced that employee Vernon Hackett had been
fired.

Mr McPherson said: 'My first and foremost concern is with the victim.
I'm as shocked and disturbed by this assault as anyone would be. The
behaviour displayed in the video is unfathomable and reprehensible.'

Mr McPherson added that action might also be taken against other restaurant workers.

Seizure: The girl shakes on the floor uncontrollably after the attack

The shocking footage, where the 22-year-old Miss Polis is brutally
beaten to the point of having a seizure, happened on April 18.

The LGBT group is now calling on police to investigate the attack as a hate crime.

During the brutal attack, which lasted for several minutes, Miss Polis was repeatedly kicked in the head and stamped on by two
black girls in the fast food store.

Staff stood by and even laughed as the attackers grabbed the victim's hair and dragged her across the floor.

After shocking
footage of the assault spread across the internet, with one site alone
receiving 450,000 views by mid-afternoon, police said a 14-year-old girl
had been
charged as a juvenile, while charges were pending against an 18-year-old
woman.

Two attacks? Brown allegedly attacked another woman outside this Rosedale McDonald's last July

While the incident remains under investigation, local
police told the Baltimore Sun they were looking into whether or not
there was racist motivation.

'If there is evidence that the
crime was racially motivated, we will take a look at those charges and
see if we meet those elements. We have the ability, if the facts are
there, to upgrade the charges at a later date,' Shellenberger said.

Police said Miss Polis had suffered cuts to her
mouth and face but was in 'fair' condition.

Fired: Vernon Hackett, the employee who shot the footage, has been sacked from his job at the McDonald's outlet

The horrifying video
of the attack shows the black girls repeatedly punching, kicking and
stamping on Miss Polis before briefly leaving the store.

She manages to get up briefly before they return, again punching and kicking her to the floor.

At one point they try to drag Miss Polis outside to the parking lot -
and it takes the intervention of an old woman eating in the store to
stop them.

After threatening to hit the older woman as well, the
girls continue heavily pounding the victim, until, bleeding, she starts
to have a seizure by the front door of the restaurant.

The attackers are warned by an employee to flee before authorities
are finally called as onlookers realise that 'she needs help right now'.

Miss Polis said: I do want to find that... lady who helped me. I do
want to thank her in person, face to face. If it wasn't for her I
propably would have had the seizure, and they would have continued to
hurt me.'

Hackett raised the ire of his employers after claiming credit for filming the video on his Facebook account, which he has
since taken down.

At one point he can be heard laughing hysterically at the violence in front of him.

McDonald's have slammed the incident as 'unacceptable, disturbing and troubling'.

The
video emerged on Friday on music website worldstarhiphop.com and has
sparked fierce debate about the inaction of the McDonald's staff.

One visitor to the site last night commented: 'Where the heck were the employees? This is crazy and sad.'

Another added: 'Worst management ever.'

On
another site, a viewer wrote: The female 'animals' need to be
apprehended, and charged with attempted murder... the victim needs to
sue McDonald's for everything they are worth.'

Others, however, argue that it would have been dangerous for the employees to have intervened.